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Time Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
- Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
- The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;…
- Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
- Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
- In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
- If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data…
- Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has…
- If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily…
- For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness…
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
- Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the…
- Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those…
- He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
- A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs…
- What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
- Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into…
- All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is…
- In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the…
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